Re: Changing from Minstrel to PID

[Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Martín Ernesto Barreyro
<barreyromartin@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I don't know, I'll post the minstrel statistics, maybe it'll help you.Some
> months ago the rate control wasn't working at all, and Larry took care of
> it. Since that both algorithms started working, the count of retrys was
> missing at that time.
> Both algorithms started working, but minstrel sometimes works for while but
> then goes to the max rate, in my case 54mbps if i a don't change it to other
> with iwconfig, e.g iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M auto

I am sure somebody with more experience with tuning mistrel can give
you some help...

>> The other thing is, you can probably patch compat-wireless to do
>> something similiar or at least experiment with it, as long as your
>> kernel is configured with most of them as modules. Switching
>> compat-wireless is quite easy, and particularly with the
>> 'driver-select rtl818x' option you just rebuild about 6 kernel modules
>> instead of the usual 50+, which makes it quite quick and painless.
>
>
> You are saying that i could give it a try for adding the option that i was
> asking for?
> Iill give it a shot but i don't know how many time will it take me

Yes, compat-wlreless is useful for trying out small patches. Adding a
module parameter isn't too much trouble, i think - and there are
plenty of examples (many kernel module do parameters).